Cisco 871 Disaster Recovery

[smooth27]

Hi all,

I'm kinda new to this so bear with me. How do I restore a backed up configuration file from TFTP? I'm testing a new Cisco router and got it working, then I saved the startup-config to a TFTP server. What I'm planning to do is reset the router to factory default and download the backup config.

Thanks in advanced.

 

[chipk]

Once you reset your router, you'll need to get a minimum config on it (because you can't access tftp if it's not on the network). Once you have it where you can at least ping your tftp server, you can issue the following command:

copy tftp startup-config

It will ask you for the tftp address, the source and destination file names, etc. Once finished, do a reload or copy startup to running, and your config should be good.

 

[3wsparky]

from the # prompt do the following

config t
int fast 0
ip address 10.0.0.1 255.0.0.0
no shut
exit
copy tftp run

follow the prompts

of course the 10.0.0.1 assuming thats your class and scheme

job done

 

[smooth27]

Thanks, guys!